Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!guest From: granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Using TP5.0 TURBO.TPL with TP6.0 Message-ID: <1991May8.124525.11539@e2big.mko.dec.com> Date: 8 May 91 12:45:25 GMT References: Sender: guest@e2big.mko.dec.com (Guest (DECnet)) Reply-To: granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) Followup-To: granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA Lines: 26 In article , janc@p.tvt.se (Jan Carlsson) writes: > >I have a TP5.0 TURBO.TPL with several library units that I need too use. >The problem is that my compiler is version 6.0. The compiler dosen't like >this file so my question is: Is there any possibility to change the .TPL >file to make it usable with the 6.0 compiler ? Nope. Your problem stems from the fact that units compiled under any version of Turbo Pascal are incompatible with any other version of the Turbo Pascal compiler. In other words, units compiled under TP5.5 can not be used with TP6.0. At the inroduction of TP6.0 in Boston, during a question and answer period, I asked Borland if they ever planned to have any kind of backward compatibility for compiled units. They said, "No." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark H. Granoff | Enterprise Integration Services/Engineering VAXworks --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Equipment Corporation | Internet: granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com 129 Parker Street | Usenet : ...!decwrl!vaxwrk.enet!granoff PKO2-1/M21 | AT&T : +1 508 493 4512 Maynard, MA 01754 | FAX : +1 508 493 2240 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opinions herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of Digital. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------